Marie van der Zyl, who is on the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said the peerage was “beyond disappointing” after her “so-called independent inquiry”, the BBC reported.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said in a statement: “If anybody still took Shami Chakrabarti’s report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party or Jeremy Corbyn’s declared opposition to anti-Semitism seriously, this must be the final straw... Having promised to never send anyone to the House of Lords, that is exactly what Jeremy Corbyn has done in return for a clean bill of health.”

In an interview on the BBC’s Daily Politics on Wednesday, Chakrabarti claimed she had been offered the peerage after the inquiry had concluded, and suggestions to the contrary were “smears”.

Chakrabarti provoked controversy at Labour’s conference this week when she urged Jewish supporters not to quit the party.